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diff --git a/compiler/nativeGen/NOTES b/compiler/nativeGen/NOTES deleted file mode 100644 index 9068a7fc2c..0000000000 --- a/compiler/nativeGen/NOTES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -TODO in new NCG -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Are we being careful enough about narrowing those out-of-range CmmInts? - -- Register allocator: - - fixup code - - keep track of free stack slots - - Optimisations: - - - picking the assignment on entry to a block: better to defer this - until we know all the assignments. In a loop, we should pick - the assignment from the looping jump (fixpointing?), so that any - fixup code ends up *outside* the loop. Otherwise, we should - pick the assignment that results in the least fixup code. - -- splitting? - --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- x86 ToDos - -- x86 genCCall needs to tack on the @size for stdcalls (might not be in the - foreignlabel). - -- x86: should really clean up that IMUL64 stuff, and tell the code gen about - Intel imul instructions. - -- x86: we're not careful enough about making sure that we only use - byte-addressable registers in byte instructions. Should we do it this - way, or stick to using 32-bit registers everywhere? - -- Use SSE for floating point, optionally. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Further optimisations: - -- We might be able to extend the scope of the inlining phase so it can - skip over more statements that don't affect the value of the inlined - expr. - |